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Date:      Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:42:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   reply to field
Message-ID:  <199911050242.VAA58383@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199911050041.QAA49569@rah.star-gate.com>
References:  <199911050041.QAA49569@rah.star-gate.com>

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<<On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:41:28 -0800, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> said:

> Curious, why is the reply field in the email header not set
> to the originating mailing list?

Because that would be an incredibly obnoxious (I would even say
asinine) thing to do.  If I want to make a reply to the list, I'll
make a reply to the list.  If I don't, I won't.  Readers of the
FreeBSD mailing-lists are expected to be smart enough to know the
difference between ``reply'' and ``followup'' (or whatever the
relevant commands in their MUA are).

In short, we have had this discussion (at regular intervals) and the
answer is still ``no''.

-GAWollman



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